If you've looked into search engine optimization as a promotional technique for your website, you have likely come across the advice to make your website secure (having an https:// appear in front of your URLs instead of http://). Google has been ... Read More

Google Search Console (GSC) can be a helpful tool - providing you use it. This guide isn't meant for advanced users nor is it a comprehensive dive into every feature GSC has. I'm not looking to overwhelm you. Instead, we're going to go over eight ... Read More

Considering I spent several hours searching for a way to do the following successfully without much luck, I figured the information was worth sharing.I have a site using WooCommerce where some products need to have product images and others ... Read More

Coming up with good topics for your blog posts can be a struggle, especially after you have been blogging for a while. When I get inspired, blogging is easy for me. When I have to sit down and write like it's homework because I need to publish two ... Read More

I get a lot of newer, aspiring affiliates on the Sugarrae site and when you've never done affiliate marketing before, all of the terms can get a little confusing. So I created this glossary of affiliate marketing terms to help newer affiliates and ... Read More

I always run my affiliate links through redirects - also referred to as cloaking affiliate links - for several reasons:Running them through my redirects means I have a click count to match up to the one the merchant is reporting.
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This past weekend Google sent out a round of manual penalty notices citing "unnatural outbound links" - later confirmed to be targeting sites publishing compensated content and reviews where the blogger is linking out to the brand or site that ... Read More

Sometimes an AdSense unit won't display an ad to a user for whatever reason. When an AdSense unit doesn't show an ad, it leaves an odd amount of space within the content, and reduces my ability to monetize those pages - and I find that unacceptable. ... Read More

If you follow me on Twitter, then you know I sometimes complain about the current state of the industry - most notably centered around what passes for research and discussion these days. It feels like people want to be handed the fish - with little ... Read More

Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google that will alert you to new content Google finds on the web that contains keywords you specify. Google Alerts is most commonly recommended as a way to monitor your brand - and your competition's brand ... Read More

I've become obsessed with site speed over the last six months, systematically working through each of my sites to improve their speed. Supposed SEO benefits aside, the faster your site is, the better the user experience. And the better the user ... Read More

In August I published a post examining a common question in email marketing – do email subscription pop-ups work? The post detailed how I went about implementing pop-ups via OptinMonster (affiliate), as well as the results I attained in using them on ... Read More